''Acacia rupicola'', commonly known as rock wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''
Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...
'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' native to south eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The
glabrous, diffuse and somewhat resinous shrub typically grows to a height of . It has prominently ribbed branchlets with no
stipules and sessile, patent, green
phyllode
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s with a narrowly triangular to linear-triangular shape that are in length and wide with a prominent midrib.
[ It blooms between August and January with sporadic flowering at other times producing yellow flowers.]Acacia ulicifolia
''Acacia ulicifolia'', commonly known as prickly Moses or juniper wattle is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'', native to Australia.
Description
''Acacia ulicifolia'' is decumbent to an erect shrub high, with smoo ...
'' (Prickly Moses) but is easily distinguished by the sticky appearance of ''A. rupicola''.[
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Distribution
It is endemic
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to a large area extending from the Eyre Peninsula
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Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named aft ...
in South Australia
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in the west thorough to Bordertown and to the Grampians
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in the Victoria in the east. It is found in rocky coastal areas in sandy to loamy soils often as a part of open scrub or woodland communities.
Cultivation
It can be grown form seed or cuttings.[
The shrub is recommended as an understorey plant that can be grown in a second line from the coast, plains or foot-slopes which fares well in dry full sun or shady locations or rocky areas. It is often used in parks, reserves, highway verges, batters and wide median strips but requires well-drained soils. It is known to be both bird and insect attracting, tolerate ]drought
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and a moderate frost.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
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rupicola
Flora of Victoria (state)
Plants described in 1855
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller